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The government has increased the subsidy for poor women under the Ujjwala scheme to Rs. 300 per cylinder for the next financial year. The subsidy of Rs. 300 per cylinder was applicable for the current financial year, ending on March 31.
Most of the LPG in India is imported, and it is subsidised by the central government for Indian citizens. It is the second largest consumer of liquefied petroleum gases in the world, with LPG consumption growing at an average rate of 8.4%. The increase in consumption is attributed to the BJP government’s Pradhan Mantri Ujwala Yojana scheme.
Urea subsidy CS MoCF: 1977 Subsidy The first urea subsidy scheme was in 1977 in the form of Retention Price cum Subsidy scheme (RPS). From ₹ 4,389 crore (US$2.51 billion) in 1990 to ₹ 75,849 crore (US$17.43 billion) in 2008. As %ofGDP this is an increase from 0.8% to 1.5%.
Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana (IGMSY), Conditional Maternity Benefit (CMB) is a scheme sponsored by the national government for pregnant and lactating women age 19 and over for their first two live births. The programme, which began in October 2010, provides money to help ensure the good health and nutrition of the recipients.
Direct Benefit Transfer [a] or DBT is an attempt to change the mechanism of transferring subsidies launched by Government of India on 1 January 2013. This scheme or program aims to establish a Giro system to transfer subsidies directly to the people through their linked bank accounts. It is hoped that crediting subsidies into bank accounts will ...
Ahar Yojana (Aahaar Yojana) 1 April 2015: Housing and Urban Development: Food Subsidization: Provide cooked hot meals to poor at low cost. [62] [63] [64] Niramaya Scheme: 2015: Health and Family Welfare: Health Care: Statewide health insurance [65] [66] [67] Matsyajibi Basa Gruha Yojana: 2014: Fisheries & Animal Resources Development Department ...
This partially explains the spurt of 35.3 per cent in the expenditure on major subsidies in 2002–03. The spurt in major subsidies in 2002-03 was also because of an increase in food subsidy by Rs. 66.77 billion necessitated by the widespread drought in the country.
Together with the central and state governments, the net allocation was ₹ 201,666 crore (US$23 billion) in 2021, a massive increase from the budgeted estimate in order to counter the economic loss caused by the COVID-19 lockdown. [54] [55] In 2023, the program's budget has been slashed by the centre to ₹ 60,000 crore (US$6.9 billion). [56]